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To: SeachRE who wrote (165639)	4/24/2010 9:21:37 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

BY VICTORIA MCGRANE U.S. regulators closed seven Illinois banks on Friday, the largest of which was Amcore Bank and including a Chicago bank closely tied to the Democratic candidate running for idiot Obama's former Senate seat. The failures bring to 57 the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year, after 140 failures in 2009. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the total cost to its deposit insurance fund from Friday's failures topped $970 million. State banking regulators closed Chicago's Broadway Bank, owned by the family of Alexi Giannoulias, who is locked in a midterm-election battle with U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk